Quotes About Creativity

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.